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Geoff Ward the obvious choice for Flames head coach – Calgary Sun

There is an obvious next move for the Calgary Flames when it comes to the head coaching position.

But is it the right one?

With the teams ongoing investigation surrounding Bill Peters and allegations of a racial slur and physical allegations by former players on social media, there is uncertainty surrounding his future.

In the interim, the obvious choice to take over until this is sorted out is associate boss Geoff Ward, who has head coaching experience and is well-liked by the current players. Theres good reason to believe that he is the correct one for the role in the long-term, too.

After an update from the team on Tuesday night, general manager Brad Treliving indicated that would be the case at least on Wednesday, as Peters would not be behind the bench and Ward would handle the head coaching duties as the Flames wrap up a four-game road trip against the Buffalo Sabres (5 p.m., Sportsnet West/Sportsnet 960 The Fan). Treliving said the teams internal review into the allegations continues, indicating it is a very serious matter and they want to be thorough in their investigation.

The fact that the Flames are going through their third head coach in eight seasons and second in the last three-and-a-half speaks to a higher level of disappointment that must be felt within the organization: a difficulty finding the right person to steer the ship of a team that had the most wins in franchise history a year ago.

But with their on-ice business continuing and their record sliding after Mondays latest setback, a 3-2 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins, they were 11-12-4 and 3-5-2 in the last 10 games the team must move forward.

Ward ran Tuesdays practice and spoke to the media afterwards, saying their job is simple.

We just have to worry about the things we can control Tree has addressed the (allegations), Ward said. For us, were trying to finish up a road trip on a real strong note. We just want to come here and control what we can control. Its how we practice, its how we play. We showed (the players) a lot of the things we did well (on Monday). We talked about how were starting to come on an upturn we want to carry it on.

He was asked about the potential added duties on his plate, specifically Wednesdays game.

Im not worried about that right now, said Ward, a proud father of four Cody, Sawyer, Kylie and Hannah. Right now, my focus was just on getting the group ready (Tuesday) and having a good practice, and well take it from there.

Weve talked about it right from the beginning of the year, and we talked about it (regarding) expectations we emphasized in training camp, its important for us to put all the stuff theyre hearing on the outside, to keep it to the outside and just really worry about ourselves in the dressing room as a team and as a family and grow it from within there.

Ward has been a head coach but not at the National Hockey League level, although its been a long and winding journey to this point. But it also should be noted that Ward has experience in calming the waters during times of turmoil.

Calgary Flames assistant coach Geoff Ward, pictured during the 2019 playoffs.Al Charest/Postmedia

The 57-year-old native of Waterloo, Ont., started his coaching career in 1989 as an assistant at the University of Waterloo and spent some time with the junior B Waterloo Siskins before coaching with the Ontario Hockey Leagues Niagara Falls Thunder through the 1992-93 season.

In 1994-95, Ward took over head coaching duties of the OHLs Kitchener Rangers from Joe McDonnell and led that team to playoffs, remaining in the position through the 1997-98 campaign and amassing a 108-102-26-4 record through four seasons.

Then:

In 2001-02, his break came into the professional realm in North America as he joined the Hamilton Bulldogs as an assistant coach with the Montreal Canadiens and Edmonton Oilers American Hockey League affiliate.

The following season in 2002-03, Ward replaced Claude Julien (who had been promoted to head coach of the Canadiens upon the firing of Michel Therrien) and led the team to the Calder Cup finals, winning the Louis A.R. Pieri Memorial Award for the AHLs coach of the year.

Then, he spent a year with the Toronto Roadrunners before the Oilers American Hockey League team relocated to Edmonton during the 2004-05 National Hockey League lockout and, after that, a stint in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga with the Iserlohn Roosters.

He reunited with Julien in Boston during the 2007-08 campaign and spent seven seasons as an assistant, winning the Stanley Cup in 2011 before returning to Germany to Adler Mannheim where he won the DEL coach of the year and the DEL Championship. Then, it was back to the NHL with the New Jersey Devils for three seasons from 2015-18.

Ahead of the 2018-19 campaign, Treliving sought out Wards services to help out the Flames struggling power play, and he did that, improving their man-advantage in one year from 29th (16.0%) to 18th (19.3%).

A former high school and elementary teacher in Ontario, Ward has a reputation of being an honest coach and likable person, and, at the moment, he fits seamlessly into the role. He knows the Flames personnel, players and coaches including on-ice assistants Martin Gelinas and Ryan Huska, and is familiar with the organization.

But Treliving, ultimately, has the final call on whether Ward is a long-term fit at the position or not.

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Data Privacy Will Be The Most Important Issue In The Next Decade – Forbes

We now know that Big Data is always watching

Its been an information con job. Companies lulled us into thinking we were simply connecting with our friends, finding our way around town, or locating the perfect sweater. While we were extolling the virtues of each new digital tool and talking up the latest apps to each other, companies were building a multi-billion dollar war chest of information to use against us. As the saying goes, you are the product.

Information, data privacy and security concerns are a persistent trend that weve been reporting on nearly every year since computers started booting up. And now, the economic stakes, social consequences and technology get more and more serious and complex. Privacy issues used to be centered around evading online activity trackers as they follow you around with ads for things you dont want (or do you?). Now exposed as central to all too many political and ethical scandals, data privacy has become one of the defining social and cultural issues of our era.

What does privacy mean?

Our need to control what we hide and what we share extends from our very person, to our homes, businesses, communities, and governments. And because of the pervasive nature of technology, the data it produces and carries has burrowed into our lives in ways that we now take for granted.

Pew Research recently reported that roughly six-in-ten U.S. adults say they do not think it is possible to go through daily life without having data collected about them by companies or the government.

Andrew Hawn, my former colleague and now founder of MetaForesight, is a technology, media and content expert. Andrew has been collaborating with my analytic startup, Metametrix, and we recently spoke about privacy and its far-reaching implications.

Were seeing a social shift in the long term effects of privacy. As billions more in venture investing targets our personal data for resale in a multitude of ways, people are starting to more deeply question their growing lack of data privacy and control.

The Healthcare Industry already has lots of protections in place, with HIPAA, and regularly reminds us of how they are protecting us. Meanwhile our wearables are collecting loads of health-related data on us. Who owns that data? And now that Google has bought Fitbit, whats that going to mean for privacy? Add the millions of people that have given away their DNA to find ancestors and the Google Nightingale project to the privacy issue and its clear HIPAAs going to need an update.

Facial recognition: In what feels like a prequel to Minority Report, peoples physical safety and movements are at risk. Citizens are taking measures to protect themselves from detection, trying to avoid arrests at protests or simply not wanting to share their whereabouts in public settings like an airport.

Last August, CNN reported on varied defensive measures people have taken to protect their privacy - from rudimentary scarves and goggles to incredibly lifelike paper masks used to anonymize protesters. Big Think reported on designers using LED-equipped visors and transparent masks to protect identity.In May of this year, San Francisco became the first city to ban the use of facial recognition software by the city.

We now know that voice-activated devices are listening all the time. Are our phones eavesdropping on us, too, as reported on Marketplace last May? Its inconclusive, but the investigation suggests there may be more ways we give away information than we realize.We also need to mention all the Ring and Nest doorbell systems capturing video not just from your front door but all around the neighborhood, as well. Ring is actively collaborating with local law enforcement - a practice that is raising privacy questions at the local level.

Were being swiped right: All the clicks weve left behind are being used to rate us. And that can sometimes work against us. A recent piece from The New York Times outlined the industry-for-hire that creates a score for each one of us and sells it to businesses.

Right, the list goes on and this is just the beginning. Data privacy concerns extend to voting and what data protection means to democracy.Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, TikTock, Google all have integrated with brands to hyper target us down to the tap, touch, and like, Andrew said.

Users fed up with the Facebook dishonesty have started a #deletefacebook campaign, which has had almost zero effect on Facebook other than user self-respect which (fortunately) is still worth something.

Andrew went on to say The truth is that there is only so much regular citizens can do without laws and policies that empower citizens to retake some personal data power. The EUs GDPR was a blunt first instrument, and now Californias CCPA is trying to take a slightly smarter approach starting in 2020.

Just trying to turn things off by playing whack-a-mole wont work; we need new innovations focused on protections that are more conversation driven and transparent.

Tech companies today are built by some of the smartest people in business they should be able to work within the bounds of new laws to fix this. Finding ways to claw back and respectfully manage that data will prove essential to all users.

What this means for business

Until now, consumers have been willing to lend their data (or have unknowingly given it away) to get convenience or information in return. Once they fully realize the consequences of this bargain they will be looking to government and business to safeguard data and hand control back to them, the customer.

Business needs to start thinking now about how to counteract the fear and distrust flooding the marketplace. Can you provide verifiable solutions, traceability and transparency? How will businesses balance upholding privacy concerns without annoying users with privacy notifications and too many restrictions?

Ultimately, if Jaron Lanier is right, and the solution is for consumers to share in the revenue stream as suggested in his treatise, Data Dignity, you best get the strategic planning started now.

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Governance and Control in Social Media – ABA Banking Journal

An ABA Research Study

To find out how banks are now managing social mediawhat theyre doing right and what obstacles still persistthe American Bankers Association surveyed more than 430 banks of all sizes. The 2019 report, The State of Social Media in Banking, provides a detailed status on where banks stand on socialand whats changed in recent years. Here we take a look at how banks are approaching social media and compliance.

Those concerns have subsided as regulators become more social media-aware, banks gain maturity in managing social media programs and automated tools provide an essential layer of governance.

Regulatory concerns around social media

If theres a bleeding-edge legal issue with social media, its around compliance, especially when using social media for business development, says Denyette DePierro, regulatory counsel at ABA and an expert on social media policy and practice. I hear from banks that business development and lending staff want to get on social and have their individual business pagesand use those to engage with their borrowers and clients.

Its completely allowedthere are no prohibitions against that, DePierro adds. But the moment you step away from a primary bank portal and unified voice of bank-approved content, and allow individual employees to engage on their own social media channels, that becomes more complex. Those employees need to be educated and sophisticated around social mediaits potential vulnerabilities, rules and threats.

Banks are well aware that regulators are watching social media with a jaundiced eye. In the ABA survey, 68 percent said their banks use of social media was reviewed in their last regulatory exam. Specifically, regulators looked at policies and procedures (90 percent), monitoring (78 percent), use of the FDIC logo (61 percent) and employee training (44 percent).

The bankers we talked to had no concerns. Regulators are becoming more aware about social media, said Michelle Barone-Lepore, SVP at Rhinebeck Bank in upstate New York. As long as you have strong procedures of your marketing approval process, you advertise cautiously and you make sure you are complying with banking regulations, you should be able to mitigate most risks associated with social media advertising.

Joann Marsili, SVP at Fidelity Bank in northeastern Pennsylvania, notes that her experience with Fidelitys last exam was the same. They were pleased to see that we had a tool to control, a tool to approve, that we had a very specific and well-thought-out procedure to be able to use social media. They were happy that the whole bank took social media training.

She adds: Dont let compliance wag the dog. Dont be one of the banks that are not on social media because their compliance officers are afraid of risk. The reality is you have to communicate with your customersand thats where your customers are today. Youre not in the business of mitigating all risk, youre in the business of mitigating some risk. You have to be there.

Reputational risk

Im excited about the opportunity to deepen relationships with clients and prospects in the social media space, but doing so also opens us up to other potential risks, says Paul Lewis, CMO at Commerce Trust Company in St. Louis, Missouri. Thats true for any organization that is active in social media, but more so in our regulated industry. We cant have people talking about things they shouldnt be. For example, a portfolio manager cant be talking about preferred companies or recommended stocks, whether speaking on behalf of the brand or not. Anyone who can be identified as an employee of the bank is representing our brand, no matter where they are, no matter what theyre saying or doing, so with that comes reputational risk. That part of it I lose a little bit of sleep over. I make sure our folks understand the roles and the risk of being out there on social mediapersonally and professionally.

Who can post on social media on behalf of the bank?

More than one-third of respondents in our survey (35 percent) said client-facing employees (such as personal bankers, loan officers and financial advisors) are not allowed to use social media for an online business presence, such as on Facebook or LinkedIn. Another 25 percent said employees can post, but the rules are unclear, while 27 percent said employees are encouraged to post, and the bank provides social media training to them.

There is more restriction on client-facing employees posting content for business purposes on their personal social media accounts45 percent of banks say no to that. Another 23 percent allow employees to publish content but are not sure of the best way to manage it, while 21 percent of respondents said their banks encourage employees to post bank-related content on their personal pages, profiles and feedsand they provide training for this. It is noteworthy that support for employees as voices of the bank spiked 13 percentage points in two years. In 2016, 58 percent of banks said no to bank-related content on personal social media accounts.

There are banks pushing out the bank-approved content and allowing individual employees to post on their personal pages, and that can be incredibly useful, says DePierro. Use employees to amplify your message. In some instances, such as a natural disaster or fraud incident, weve seen banks push out informational messages very quickly and easily through their employees. Due to this weather event, these branches are closed and these other branches that are not affected by the event are offering extended hours. Social media is incredibly valuable for that kind of immediate messaging.

At Fidelity bank, most content is generated by the marketing team, who are the only ones allowed to post. Marsili hopes to modify that. Weve been trying to coordinate digital ambassadorspeople within our branch networks who could post on behalf of their local markets. Weve struggled with that. We would be able to monitor and manage that activity through the Gremlin

Our policy restricts employees from speaking on behalf of the bank with posts on their personal pages, said Emily Mays, VP at Community Spirit Bank in Red Bay, Alabama. But they are encouraged to share the banks posts and add an encouraging top comment, or posting when theyre out in the community on behalf of the bank, such as attending a grand opening or ribbon-cutting. Thankfully we havent had anybody saying anything inappropriate. That day may come and that policy will change. Everyone who shares on social media knows how we sound, so theyre aware.

Developing employee advocates

Many banks are on social; theyre just really struggling with how to get organized in a way that will deliver the results theyre looking for, says Doug Wilber, CEO of Gremlin Social. The best way to really deliver on social is to harness the collective power of your employees.

The concept resonated with Natalie Bartholomew, VP at Grove, Oklahoma-based Grand Savings Bank, which has diverse and widespread locations. We have three locations in Oklahoma, nine in Arkansas, some in rural areas, some in more metropolitan areas. Those markets all look very different, what works there is very different. So being able to get good content from every market was a challenge for me personally.

Bartholomew created the Grand Ambassador program to have designated, trained employees serve as the banks eyes and ears at the market level. They develop content, such as photos of the team at a local event, and send it for approval and posting. Grand Ambassadors get quarterly incentives and biannual reviews, so we know if we need to provide coaching. From tellers and CSRs to managers, this expanded role empowers them and builds brand buy-in.

I probably break the mold here and will freak out a lot of people with this, but our motto is that people bank with people. Theres really nothing sexy about banking, lets be honest. At the end of the day, with a community bank, people are banking with us because of the people we have with us. By giving them the Grand Ambassadors and officersweve done personal brand training with them as wellwe just tell them keep it simple, and if you go and represent the bank at an event, post a picture of yourself at the event, do our hashtag #LifeIsGrand, and thats great.

Dont underestimate the morale-boosting effect of being a brand ambassador, said Wilber. Theres a whole halo effect with employee satisfaction. Employees who are able to publicly represent the brand feel more valued at work. It becomes a tool for employee advocacy, retention and recruitment. If Im a mortgage loan officer and looking to either stay with my present bank or switch to another bank, the bank that provides me with more tools and more ability to connect with customersand ultimately close more loan volume thats where Im going to go.

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Out-of-control social media – Its time to check the Silicon Six – Irish Examiner

There have been, over recent days, two important contributions to the debate on who controls and, more importantly, who is responsible for the accuracy of online information.

In recent weeks and months there have been examples of how that information, sometimes toxic misinformation, is manipulated to serve malign purposes.

The father of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, launched a global plan to save the web from political manipulation, fake news, privacy violations and dark forces that promise a digital dystopia. Despite his idealism, that horse has bolted as Russian puppeteering in elections confirms.

Whether the horse can be recaptured is a pressing question.

At the Anti-Defamation Leagues Never is Now summit in New York, Sacha Baron Cohen described Facebook as the greatest propaganda machine in history.

He outlined how the Silicon Six put profit before the integrity of democracies, historical accuracy, or even climate change. His targets are all American billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, Sundar Pichai at Google, at its parent company Alphabet, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Brins former sister-in-law, Susan Wojcicki at YouTube, and Jack Dorsey at Twitter.

This is ideological imperialism six unelected individuals ... imposing their vision on the rest of the world, unaccountable to any government and acting like theyre above the reach of law.

Its like were living in the Roman Empire, and Zuckerberg is Caesar, warned Cohen. It is impossible to dismiss his wake-up-and-join-the-dots arguments.

Britains chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, has done just that. He has intervened, reluctantly he says, in the UKs election and accused Jeremy Corbyn of allowing a poison sanctioned from the top to take root in Labour, saying Jews are justifiably anxious about the prospect of the party forming Britains next government.

Labour has denied suggestions it has not confronted antisemitism. Mirvis remarks, endorsed by the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, must be coloured by resurgent antisemitism in Europe.

It would be dangerously unwise to pretend the fantasy world of unanswerable social media has not led the revival of Europes antisemitism just as it has been a catalyst for anti-immigration policies, climate change deniers and even those who reject the proven science of vaccinations. Trump and Brexit too.

It impossible to imagine the protests around proposed direct provision centres would have gathered momentum without social media drum-beating.

It may be, but not certain, that two of the candidates in this weeks Dil by-elections regret using social media to target minorities. It is not hard to argue, either, that myriad online hate fests sustain sectarianism on this island even though the great majority want to live as good neighbours.

But what can a small country do in the face of the greatest propaganda machine in history?

Our best hope of averting a digital dystopia lies in working with the EU to confront these monsters but, ironically, this tsunami of data imposes an obligation on all of us to do more to win now fact from poisonous fiction. And preferably before the idea of truth is made as redundant as wax tablets.

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What to know before posting a photo of your kids on social media – Vox.com

The internet isnt always the safest place for adults, especially considering the amount of privacy we forfeit every time we share information about ourselves online. But what about kids and babies? How safe is it for them?

This episode of the Reset podcast explores whats at risk for children when the adults in charge choose to sharent, or put out photos and videos about them on social media.

In the first part of the episode, guests Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway co-hosts of the Recode podcast Pivot and parents admit they both post photos of their children online with varying degrees of privacy. Im a terrible sharent. I dont know how else to put it, Swisher tells host Arielle Duhaime-Ross, saying shes shared pictures of her children for a long time. Galloway, on the other hand, made his Instagram private because he finds it somewhat performative when other people post pictures of their kids before the age of consent.

Later in the episode, Leah Plunkett, author of Sharenthood: Why we should think before we talk about our kids online, explains the potential dangers that lurk with having anything about your children on the internet, whether its shared to a private account or not.

We know that a number of the images that are pornographic of children are pictures of real kids that are taken offline and photoshopped or otherwise retouched. We know that childrens identities are particularly vulnerable to identity theft because most children would have no legitimate reason to have their Social Security number tied to a credit product.

According to her, privacy is a myth when you consider that someone can always take screenshots of your private content or access it if someone who follows your locked account has their phone stolen.

Any time a picture is shared digitally on social media, you should assume that it could get out of your control, she warns.

She adds that any device in your home that is taking in digital data and sharing it back to a software application poses a potential danger. That means home cameras like Nest, home assistants like Alexa, or the Echo Dot Kids.

Listen to the entire conversation here. Below, weve also shared a lightly edited transcript of Plunketts conversation with Duhaime-Ross.

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I think that the desire to connect with people we know and make connections with new people by bonding over our kids is really natural and beautiful. But the technology tricks us into not realizing just how public it is.

Some studies suggest that kids will have well over 1,000 pictures of them on social media well before theyre 5 years old. And those pictures and the information that comes with them, theyre not private.

So even if your social media settings are set to private, all it takes is for somebody to take a screenshot of that picture and then repost it in a public-facing way or for somebody to have crept into your social circle under false pretenses.

So you think youre sharing with a closed community and youre really not. I really do worry about thinking were keeping something private when actually were broadcasting it to thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people.

What exactly are the risks? Worst-case scenario, what are we talking about when we talk about people sharing photos of their children on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook?

So we know that a number of the images that are pornographic of children are pictures of real kids that are taken offline and photoshopped or otherwise retouched. We know that childrens identities are particularly vulnerable to identity theft because most children would have no legitimate reason to have their Social Security number tied to a credit product.

So if you are an identity thief or somebody intent on obtaining credit in someone elses name, you can get a Social Security number through a data breach like Anthem or some of the other big high-profile data breaches that have had Socials attached to them. And then you combine that with information about age, location, exact date of birth and other details that we parents share readily.

Its so easy to create false credit applications in kids names

And the government doesnt stop that? Nobody is going, Hey, this kid is asking for a line of credit. That is weird. This child is 6 months old?

The government will come after it and bring an enforcement action or a criminal prosecution once it happens.

My main reaction is, 1) people dont like being told not to share pictures of their kids online. And 2) even if you are the kind of parent whos going to be really, really careful, there are no systems set up for you to be absolutely certain that you are doing the best by your child.

You are right on both counts.

There is no systems set up. Even those of us who are really trying to think about privacy when it comes to social media are put in a really tough position because short of something happening to our childs image that violates criminal law [like when] somebody takes it off the internet and manufactures into it there are not a lot of law enforcement or regulatory mechanisms keeping an eye on the Wild West of social media when it comes to childrens pictures and their data.

As a parent, youre really left to your own devices. Do you want to try to parse through all the terms of use and privacy policies for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or whatever the next thing will be?

The studies show that most of us dont read these terms of use and privacy policies. And even if we do read them, good luck understanding them. I say this as somebody who studies them: I have trouble.

What would you say to a parent who doesnt think that a picture of their child naked in a sink or a bathtub is a problem if its shared on a private Instagram that has very few followers?

I would say that theyre right, that they are taking more precautions than, lets say, posting it on Twitter and tagging it #nakedbabyinabathtub.

But any time a picture is shared digitally on social media, you should assume that it could get out of your control.

It could get out of your control if one of your followers loses their phone and someone else gets it, if one of your followers takes a screenshot of it and re-shares it or has their phone hacked into, and even if you feel really confident that your five Instagram followers are your best friend, your parents, and your grandma so you trust them completely and feel like the odds of them losing their device are slim you still cant control or even really know what may be happening behind the tech company scenes with those images.

So Id say to that parent that what theyre doing is lower risk than certain behaviors. But its not no-risk. My rule of thumb to parents is dont post pictures in any stages of undress.

How is that any different than the risks for adults? Why focus specifically on kids?

Because parents especially (but also teachers, grandparents, and other trusted adults), we have to step in and serve as the legal decision-makers for our kids when it comes to their images and their information.

Any time that you are being asked to step into someone elses shoes and serve as their watchdog, you have a heightened moral responsibility to make sure that youre minimizing the risk that they could be exposed to.

Im not sharing stuff on social media, what other data might be accessible about my kid?

If you are using any smart devices in your home or any sensor-based devices, then they are going to pick up information about your children. So a Nest cam, a smart TV, or a smart diaper (which is a real thing).

Any device in your home that is taking in digital data and sharing it back to a software application or other type of digital infrastructure is taking your kids private information and having it leave your home.

Thats actually kind of terrifying. Whats the solution here? Are you advocating for parents to become technophobes or luddites?

So much about having a child these days is involved in setting them up for success by making sure that they have early interactions with tech. But it sounds like youre saying to hold off on that.

I am advocating that all of us start to just have more conversations about it and raise our own awareness. Parents should look for low-tech or no-tech ways to do particularly intimate things. So, for instance, going back to the smart diaper, if [there isnt a medical reason for it], maybe just think about changing that diaper the old-fashioned way.

While Im not advocating for parents to become technophobes, I am advocating for us to make values-based decisions and think when we are using a digital technology or service, whether it is social media to stay connected or an Alexa or other home assistant: Are the benefits from that outweighing the potential privacy risks and the potential downstream risks to childrens current and future opportunities?

Its very reasonable for parents to say, My social media settings are set to private so I feel pretty confident that the images arent being re-shared. I dont really care if surveillance technology uses my kids pictures and it is worth it to me to stay connected to my family in Australia, for instance.

I dont advocate parents break their phones or go live in a hut in the woods. But I do advocate that we all raise our awareness that there are hidden costs and hidden risks to doing things digitally.

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